Ashley Cureton-TurnerInterest areas: Refugee children and adolescent development; schooling among disadvantaged populations; school social work and urban education; school-based interventions; international social work; qualitative research methods

Daysi Diaz-StrongInterest areas: Undocumented Immigrant Youth and Young Adults, Immigration Policy, Adolescent Development and the Transition to Adulthood, Developmental and Educational Trajectories of Immigrant and Minority Youth, Identity Development

Dissertation title: "The Impact of Legal Status and Timing of Immigration: The Incorporation Experiences and Developmental Trajectories of Undocumented Adolescent Arrivals"

Interest areas: Fathers and fathering; Father engagement and involvement; Fathers involved in the child welfare system; Young fathers under the care of the child welfare system; Fatherhood programs and interventions; Fathers and child development; African American fathers; Incarcerated fathers; Social support among fathers; Child support enforcement; Theories of father involvement

Proscovia NabunyaInterest areas: Social Capital; Social Networks and Social Support for Children Affected by HIV/AIDS; Child Poverty and Asset Building Policies; International Comparative Welfare Policies

Dissertation title: "Family Economic Strengthening and Non-kin Support Networks for AIDS-Orphaned Children Living in Low Resource Communities"

Keunhye ParkInterest areas: Child welfare systems and services, service provision in the juvenile justice system, educational programming for vulnerable children and youth, and service integration between child welfare and other social services systems serving children and families

Dissertation title: "The influence of social surroundings on juvenile and criminal justice involvement of 17-year-olds transitioning from foster care to adulthood: A longitudinal and life-course approach"

Tonie SadlerInterest areas: Disability and incarceration; intellectual and developmental disabilities; disabilities and health and crime policy; racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care and the criminal justice system among people with disabilities.

Julian ThompsonInterest areas: Race and Ethnicity; Urban Poverty; Sociology of Punishment; Reentry and Desistance from Crime; Intersection of Mental Health and the Criminal Legal System; Social Policy; Critical Social Work

Dissertation title: "The New Rehabilitationism? Examining Mental Health Courts in an Age of Neoliberal Penal Governance"

Alumni Spotlight

Kelli Bosak, AM '15

“SSA has set me on the path toward gaining the skills and knowledge I need as a social worker. It has given me a professional identity, a network of motivated advocates, and a way to channel my passion by opening me to a variety of experiences.”